ReDefiners

Rohan Desai

Works at ReDefine Vancouver

Job Role Global Head of ReDefine

As Global Head of ReDefine, Rohan Desai is responsible for the company’s overall strategy and global operations. He also heads up DNEG’s stereo conversion division which delivers top Hollywood 3D projects.

Over the years Rohan has worked on high-profile projects such as ‘Transformers’, ‘The Expendables’, ‘Non-Stop’, ‘The Mule’ and ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’. Rohan is also a true veteran of the Bollywood film industry with an impressive network of filmmaking contacts. Some of the most prominent Bollywood projects he has worked on include ‘Ekk Tha Tiger’, ‘Ra.One’, ‘Guzaarish’ and ‘My Name Is Khan.’ For his work on ‘Musafir’, Rohan won the Zee Cine Award for Best VFX.

Having started his career with Prime Focus in 2000 and completed over 350 projects, Rohan moved over to the management side of the business and is doing an outstanding job managing the global presence of ReDefine. This is certainly the redefining moment in his career.

Greg Gavanski

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role Animation Division Head

Greg Gavanski is the Animation Division Head for ReDefine and leads the overall animation strategy and output for the company.

His recent experience includes being Head of Animation on ‘Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You,’ Lego: Nexo Knights’ and the ‘Lego: City’ (TV Series), as well as producing a number of animated and live action projects including ‘A Wizard’s Tale,’ ‘Cranston Academy: Monster Zone’ and ‘The Hurricane Heist.’

The redefining moment of Greg’s career has been growing a division that now not only delivers world class animation services to global clients, but also partners with and co-produces projects with leading film-makers. He has already brought a number of exciting animated features to ReDefine, including ‘100% Wolf’ which is a joint production with Flying Bark Productions.

Bill Schultz

Works at ReDefine LA

Job Role Executive Producer, Animation

As an Executive Producer for Animation, Bill is in charge of overseeing the smooth running of animation projects for ReDefine.

Bill brings a wealth of experience to ReDefine, having spent over 25 years in the entertainment industry. His credit list includes well-known shows such as ‘The Simpsons’, ‘King of the Hill’, ‘Garfield’, ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’, ‘He Man and the Masters of the Universe’, ‘Hero:108’ and most recently the original Netflix preschool children’s series ‘True & The Rainbow Kingdom’, which is entering its fourth season.

Bill’s work has been recognised with a number of prestigious accolades, including four Emmy awards and over twenty Emmy nominations.

Guanglei Jia

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role China Business Executive

As our China Business Executive, Guanglei is in charge of our business strategy for the China market. He has over ten years of experience in the industry.

Guanglei started his career at Plowman Craven where he rose through the ranks from 3D Technician to Technical Entertainment Business Manager and won their Employee Recognition Award three years in a row. Guanglei then moved over to DNEG and has been with the company for six years.

Guanglei’s impressive credit list includes credits such as ‘Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation’, ,’Edge of Tomorrow’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’.

The redefining moment in Guanglei’s career is the opportunity to help launch ReDefine in China.

Gavin Boyle

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role Global Head of Previsualisation

Gavin Boyle is ReDefine’s Global Head of Previsualisation. He is a 20 year veteran of the industry, with strong experience in Previs, layout and animation. Based in Beijing, Gavin has been Previs Supervisor on a number of high-profile Chinese movies including ‘Fengshen Trilogy’, ‘Monster Hunt’, ‘Crazy Alien’, ‘Detective Chinatown 2’, ‘Asura’ and ‘The Wandering Earth’.

Zubin Wadia

Works at ReDefine LA

Job Role Global Head of Technology

As Global Head of Technology, Zubin is in charge of putting together and managing the technology that underpins ReDefine’s output.

With over 20 years of experience in the VFX industry, Zubin has had the opportunity to work on a number of great projects, including ‘Avatar 2’, ‘Moana’, ‘Zootopia’, ‘Frozen’, ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, ‘Incredible Hulk’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ to name a few. He has worked in FX and Pipeline for a number of prestigious companies such as Weta, Disney, DreamWorks Animation and Digital Domain.

A technology enthusiast, Zubin’s redefining career moment was the opportunity to set up the technological infrastructure at ReDefine. He brings new and unique ways to leverage traditional VFX and animation pipelines, in addition to exploring new immersive and other technologies to give ReDefine shows a unique advantage.

Yohann Abraham

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role General Manager, India

As General Manager of ReDefine, Yohann oversees the entire ReDefine facility (Pinnacle) in Mumbai.

A Prime Focus veteran, Yohann started back in 2000 as a Business Manager and then went on to head the advertising operations. He founded his own firm in the Middle East in 2011, where he worked with clients such as Samsung, Microsoft, L’Oréal and P&G.

Having worked with multinational companies of this scale, Yohann sees the opportunity to use his immersive experience to ensure that our largest facility runs like clockwork. Being a key part of the growth of ReDefine is certainly going to be the redefining moment of Yohann’s career as it will allow him to leverage his expertise and make the company a great success.

Vijay Kakwani

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role SVP of Operations, India

With over twenty years of experience, Vijay Kakwani  has worked with some of the world’s top telecom, media and office automation conglomerates like Xerox, Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications, MTS and Prime Focus World.

Vijay brings a wide range of expertise in operations, developing teams and delivering high-value results. Most recently, he has been Senior Vice President of Animation Operations at Prime Focus World and comes into ReDefine from this successful tenure.

Under his operational leadership, the Animation division delivered projects such as the Lego series (‘Nexo Knights’, ‘City’), DVD films (Lego’s ‘Girlz 4 Life’ , ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’) and theatricals ( ‘Here Comes the Grump’, ‘Scary Show’, ‘Chaar Sahibzaade-2’)

The redefining moment in his career came five years back, when he joined the exciting world of Animation with Prime Focus World because he managed to quickly learn the ropes and lead the division towards many successful projects.

Nigel Denton-Howes

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role Creative Director, VFX

Nigel Denton-Howes is a distinguished VFX Supervisor and ReDefine’s Creative Director (VFX), with credits on many highly acclaimed cinematic releases, including as Production VFX Supervisor on ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ for Netflix.

Most recently, Nigel supervised VFX work on ‘Alita: Battle Angel’, for which he oversaw the delivery of director Robert Rodriguez’s vision for the movie’s floating city of Zalem and the gigantic Motorball stadium. Other VFX Supervisor credits in Nigel’s filmography include Marvel Studios’ ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’, ‘Maleficent’ and ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’.

With twenty years’ experience in VFX, Nigel’s skills span a wide area of filmmaking, from bidding through to concept art and he has worked at studios in both London and Vancouver. The redefining moment in Nigel’s career is his nomination for Best Visual Effects at the CinEuphoria Awards for his work as VFX Supervisor on ‘Mowgli’.

John Harvey

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role Creative Director, Animation

As Creative Director for Animation at ReDefine, John Harvey oversees the company’s overall creative strategy for the animation department.

With over twenty-six years of experience in the industry, John has worked on a number of great projects, including ‘A Wizard’s Tale’ and ‘Lego NEXO Knights’. He joined Prime Focus in 2005 as Creative Director and was instrumental in designing, setting up and developing the animation department, pipeline and creative output.

Heading up the creative direction of animation at ReDefine is the redefining moment in John’s career as he can bring his expertise and track-record of quality to the business.

Corey Smith

Works at ReDefine Montreal

Job Role Creative Supervisor, North America

Corey Smith is Creative Supervisor, North America based in ReDefine’s Montreal office. 

He plays a leading part in ReDefine’s creative direction, providing guidance, oversight and support for the projects going through our Montreal hub. He also works closely with our global creative leadership team to support the development of new projects, co-productions and internal intellectual property in North America.

With over two decades of experience in animation and visual effects, Corey was previously Head of CG for DNEG in Montreal, and prior to this, worked as part of DNEG’s Feature Animation team. 

Before joining DNEG, Corey spent many years at Walt Disney Animation Studios, working on projects such as ‘Dinosaur’, ‘Chicken Little’, ‘Tinker Bell’ and ‘Meet the Robinsons’. He was also VFX Supervisor on ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’.

Viral Thakkar

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Creative Director, VFX - India

Viral Thakkar is ReDefine’s Creative Director for VFX in India and has over eighteen years of experience in the VFX industry.

Viral previously ran his own VFX boutique studio, offering quality VFX for films, web series, digital film and advertising. He comes to ReDefine with his team of around 100 talented artists who have delivered visual effects on a number of Bollywood box office hits, including recent movies ‘Kesari’ for director Anurag Singh and ‘Sanju’ directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

His credits as a VFX Supervisor include well-known Bollywood movies such as ‘Sanju’ (2018), ‘Airlift’ (2016), ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ (2015) and ‘PK’ (2014).

Nick Hsieh

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Nick Hsieh is a VFX Supervisor for ReDefine with over thirty years of experience in the VFX industry.

An industry veteran, Nick has great cross-disciplinary expertise having worked across compositing, CG and VFX for companies such as Technicolor and Base FX.

He has won several awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on ‘Black Sails’ and a Leo Award for his work on ‘The Collector’. Recently, Nick has been involved in features such as ‘Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens’ and ‘Pacific Rim’.

Andrew Simmonds

Works at ReDefine London

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Andrew Simmonds has been in the VFX industry for 13 years and has had the opportunity to work on some exceptional projects. Some of these are: ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2’ and ‘Pacific Rim 2’. Andrew is especially proud of the end look of the work he did on ‘Lion King’ very recently.

For his contribution to ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, Andrew received a VFX society nomination. This is the show that he sees as the redefining moment of his career as it allowed him a great level of creative and technical involvement. He was also happy with the implementation of his plans for shot delivery.

Andrew is now excited to be taking his experience to ReDefine where he will be helping us to deliver a number of great projects.

Serkan Zelzele

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Serkan Zelzele is a VFX Supervisor with over twenty years of experience in the industry. He has expertise in all aspects of the VFX pipeline, design and character development.

His most recent projects include ‘Pegasus’, ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Fast & Furious 8’. Earlier in his career, Serkan worked on ‘Night at the Museum’, ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ and ‘X-Men 2’.

Alex Guri

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Alex Guri is a VFX Supervisor with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He has developed a strong track record of technical leadership and compositing.

Alex began his career working in a specialized design studio, creating title sequences, content graphics and corporate idents for television. He then went into compositing and has since worked for a number of prestigious VFX houses, including DNEG and Moving Picture Company.

Most recently, Alex worked as Compositing Supervisor for MPC on ‘Aquaman’ and ‘The Predator’. His impressive credit list also boasts ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ and ‘Passengers’, where he had supervisory roles. Remarkably, he was part of the team that received a VFX Oscar for ‘The Jungle Book’. Alex sees his work as VFX Supervisor for ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ as the redefining moment in his career, as it gave him the opportunity to lead a team of VFX artists to complete a highly acclaimed visual effects film.

Anshul Mathuria

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Anshul Mathuria is a VFX Supervisor with over fourteen years of experience in the industry and a record of compositing as well as VFX supervision.

Anshul comes to ReDefine from Prana Studios, where he rose up through the compositing ranks to his current position. Anshul is known for his work on movies such as ‘Tron’, ‘Transformers’, ‘Thor’, ‘Resident Evil’, ‘White Out’, ‘The Game Plan’ and ‘Hellboy’. He has also been heavily involved in several Bollywood blockbusters like ‘Aladdin’, ‘PK’, ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshi’ and commercials for their VFX work. As 2D supervisor he delivered many international projects such ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’, Disney’s ‘Planes’ and more.

The redefining moment in Anshul’s career is his nomination for a VES award for ‘Skull Island King Kong’. He has also won four FICCI awards for his work in features and commercials.

Jouelle Baracho

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Creative Supervisor

Jouelle started her career as an environment texturing artist and progressed to texturing lead at Prana. While at Prana she worked on features, special venue attractions and TV episodic series for clients such as Netflix.

Projects she is well-known for include: ‘Descendents: Wicked World’, ‘Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast’ and ‘The Pirate Fairy’.

Mahesh Holla

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Creative Supervisor

Mahesh is a CGI professional with two decades of work experience in the media industry. He has in-depth knowledge of Environment and Asset development for animation projects – starting from concept to final look, planning, execution and creative implementation are his core strengths.

Prior to ReDefine, Mahesh worked for Prime Focus as Creative Supervisor. He started as a BG Supervisor and was responsible for setting up the entire BG Team. Prior to Prime Focus, he worked for Crest Animation Studios as a Senior Texturing Artist and was then promoted to BG Stereo Lead for ‘Alpha and Omega’. Mahesh is known for his work on ‘Alpha and Omega’, ‘Legends of Chima’ and ‘Nexo Knights’.

The redefining moment in Mahesh’s career is receiving a number of domestic and international awards for his work as part of the Prime Focus Team.

Shrirang Sathaye

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Senior Creative Supervisor

Shrirang Sathaye is a Senior Creative Supervisor with over thirty years of experience in the industry. He has expertise in all aspects of production, including Creative and Animation Direction, pre-production design including story-boarding, character design and visual development.

Shrirang is known for his work on a number of projects, including the Disney/Yashraj production ‘Roadside Romeo’, the music video ‘Deewana’, which won best music video at Annecy, and the Unicef series ‘Meena’. In addition to this, he has been a jury member for various prestigious animation awards in India and has been a visiting faculty member at design schools.

Shrirang’s lifelong ambition was to work on full length animated features and this dream was fulfilled with the Disney / Yashraj animated feature ‘Roadside Romeo’. Shrirang was the Animation Director and Creative Supervisor and worked closely with the Producer and Director on the pre-production and production of this feature. This Bollywood Masala film received Indian National Film Award and was nominated at VES (Visual Effects Society) in the outstanding animation category.

François Schneider

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role CG Supervisor

Francois Schneider is a CG Supervisor with over twenty years of experience in the VFX and CG animation industry. During his career, he has specialised in a number of fields, including CG supervision, workflow and process engineering, color management for digital cinema and television, image processing, 3D rendering and production pipeline development.

Francois worked on ‘Racetime’, on which he was CG supervisor for Singing Frog Studio, and notably worked on cloud rendering and on the VR experience released alongside the movie. Another project he is known for is ‘Super 4’, on which he worked particularly on stereo workflows featuring both full CG stereo rendering and stereo conversion. Between those two he tackled complex technical challenges on movies such as ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell’.

As the redefining moment of his career, Franciois describes the time he moved internally at Vision Globale from their Animation studio to the VFX studio, which was the point when he stepped up from technical roles to show (CG) supervision.

Jean Paul Rovéla

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role CG Supervisor

Jean Paul Rovéla is a CG Supervisor with more than twenty years of experience in the VFX industry. He has worked with a number of leading VFX studios such as Duboi, Mikrosimage, The Moving Picture Company, Framestore-CFC, Hybride, Cinesite Ltd and Digital Domain 3.0.

Projects Jean Paul has worked on recently include: ‘Rocketman’, ‘Mary Poppins Returns’, ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

Jean Paul is a Member of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a Board Member at The Visual Effects Society Montréal section. He has won a Primetime Emmy award for his work on ‘Generation Kill’.

Dipan Gajjar

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Senior Creative Supervisor

Dipan Gajjar is a Senior Creative Supervisor with over fifteen years of experience in the industry.

During his career, Dipan has had the opportunity to work with renowned studios such as Prime Focus World, Mile Nine Studios, Krayon Pictures, Prana Animation Studios and Maya Entertainment Ltd. Dipan’s impressive credit list boasts projects like ‘Legends Of Chima’, ‘Delhi Safari’, ‘Tinker Bell in North of Neverland’ and ‘Koochi Koochi Hota Hain’. At ReDefine, he has been integral to the making of ‘100% Wolf’ and ‘Cranston Academy: Monster Zone’.

The redefining moment of Dipan’s career is getting the opportunity to direct the finale episode for ‘Nexo Knights’, and thereafter to direct the entire digital content for Lego.

Dipan has also won numerous awards for his first short film ‘Le dhanadhan de dhanadhan’.

Peter Dimitrov

Works at ReDefine

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Peter Dimitrov is a VFX Supervisor with over 8 years of experience in the industry.

Peter has great cross-disciplinary expertise with in-depth experience in modelling, texturing and lighting. He also has strong management experience, having worked as a studio head for Nu Boyana FX.

As a VFX Supervisor, Peter has an impressive credit list to his name including projects such as  ‘Hellboy’, ‘Angel Has Fallen’, ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’, ‘The Asset’ and ‘The Outpost’.

Arijit Ghosh

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Arijit Ghosh is a VFX Supervisor with extensive experience in the VFX industry having worked for a number of prestigious studios such as Red Chillies VFX, Prana Studios and Famous Studios.

Projects that Arijit is known for include: ‘Total Recall’, ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’, ‘Men in Black 3’ ‘Men in Black 3’ and a number of Bollywood productions such as ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’, ‘Raazi’, ‘Bareilly ki barfi’, ‘Ok Jaanu’ and ‘Mubarakan’

The redefining moment in Arijit’s career is the opportunity to put his great experience to work on an exciting range of projects with ReDefine. He is
currently working on ‘Brahmastra’ and is also supervising ‘Chehre’.

Sunil Kamath

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Sunil Kamath is a VFX Supervisor with over 15 years of experience as a colorist working in the motion pictures and film industry.

Sunil has worked for a number of companies in the industry including PIXION and Colourbar, where he was Studio Head. He is best known for his work on ‘Dev.D’, ‘Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na’ and ‘Marega Salaa’. Some of his recent projects include ‘The Great Indian Escape’ and ‘Arishadvarga’.

Susheel Peris

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Susheel Peris is a VFX Supervisor with over twenty years of experience in the industry. He has spent his entire career at Prime Focus quickly rising through the ranks to then join ReDefine.

Susheel is known for his work on projects such as ‘Paan Singh Tomar’, ‘Ra. One’, ‘The Eagle’ and ‘Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.’. He has also worked on a number of other prestigious Bollywood projects.

The redefining moment in Susheel’s career is the opportunity to join ReDefine and utilise his impressive experience to contribute to ReDefine’s continued success.

Mahesh Baria

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role VFX Supervisor

Mahesh Baria is a VFX Supervisor with fifteen years of experience in the industry. He started his career with Prime Focus in 2002 as an Inferno and Flame Compositor and went on to become a VFX & On-set Supervisor.

During his time at Prime Focus, Mahesh has been associated with various prestigious projects such as ‘Black’, ‘Chandani Chowk to China’, ‘Love Story 2050’ and ‘Wanted’.  He was also part of Prime Focus’ Digital Intermediate start-up team in 2003-04. Prior to Prime Focus, Mahesh worked for Galaxy Multimedia and Star TV.

The redefining moment in Mahesh’s career is his work on ‘Wanted’, for which he was nominated at the Apsara Producer’s Guild Awards for Best VFX.

André Bustanoby

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role VFX Supervisor

With over twenty years of experience in the industry, André Bustanoby is a VFX Supervisor who has worked on a broad range of live action and animated projects – from feature films, commercials, interactive games through to themed entertainment.

André is well-known for his work on ‘Overlord’, ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ and ‘Waterworld’. Prior to joining ReDefine, he worked for Aaron Sims Creative as a VFX Supervisor and VFX Director of Photography and was responsible for the look and execution of content for the feature film, episodic and commercial projects executed at the studio. André has also worked for MastersFX, Brain Zoo Studios, Stan Winston Digital, Digital Domain and Boss Film Studios.

The redefining moment in André’s career is joining ReDefine in the company’s Montréal facility and working on a number of exciting projects there.

Ben Cavaretta

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role CFX Supervisor

Ben Cavaretta is a CFX Supervisor at ReDefine. He brings impressive experience in the VFX industry having worked for Framestore and MPC, Le Bal des Meduses and Rollickin’.

Ben’s impressive credit list boasts projects such as ‘The Aeronauts’, ‘Christopher Robin’, ‘Paddington 2’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Night At The Museum’ and more.

The redefining moment in Ben’s career is the opportunity to work on a number of exciting projects under ReDefine.

Lazarin Kouchev

Works at ReDefine

Job Role CG Supervisor

Lazarin Kouchev is a CG Supervisor with more than 9 years of experience in the VFX industry.

He started his career as a lighting artist and over the years has developed his interest in technical direction and pipeline development.

His credits include ‘Hellboy’, ‘Rambo: Last Blood’, ‘The Outpost’ and ‘The Legend of Hercules’.

Dragostin Valev

Works at ReDefine

Job Role 2D Supervisor

Dragostin Valev is a 2D Supervisor with over 8 years of experience in VFX industry. He has worked with a number of VFX studios, including UPP (Universal Production Partners), WorldWide FX and Nu Boyana FX.

Dragostin’s impressive credit list includes shows such as ‘London Has Fallen’, ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘The Terror’ (Nominee: VES Award in category ‘Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode’), ‘Genius’ (Nominee: Primetime Emmy in category ‘Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role’), ‘Hellboy’ and more.

His recent projects include ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’, ‘The Asset’ and ‘The Outpost’.

Elena Rapondzhieva

Works at ReDefine

Job Role VFX Producer

Elena is a VFX Producer with over 10 years of experience in the digital creative industries.

As a producer, Elena has great organisational and communication expertise having worked across various industries such as VFX, animation and gaming for studios like Nu Boyana FX, Worldwide FX and Ubisoft.

Elena’s impressive credit list includes titles such as ‘Hellboy’, ‘London Has Fallen’, ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ and ‘Assassin’s Creed Origins’.

Vincent Touache

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role Department Supervisor

Vincent Touache is a Rigging Supervisor who is acting as Head of Department at ReDefine. Vincent has six years of experience in the VFX industry. His most recent credits include ‘Deadpool 2’ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’.

During his career so far, Vincent has worked for a number of high-profile VFX studios, including DNEG and Framestore. He is now excited to be bringing all of this experience into his role at ReDefine.

Vincent sees his work on ‘Dr Strange’, where he was in charge of the set deformations, and his contribution to ‘Beauty and the Beast’ as the redefining moments of his career.

Benjamin Huber

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role Head of CG

Benjamin Huber is Head of CG at ReDefine with fifteen years of experience in the VFX industry. He is known for his work on ‘Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge of the Sith’, ‘The War of the Worlds’, ‘Star Wars – The Clone Wars’, ‘Godzilla’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ movies.

He has also worked on ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ as CG Supervisor. Benjamin recently completed work on ‘Paddington 2’ and ‘Dumbo’.

Benjamin started in the VFX industry in 2004 and has completed projects under DNEG, Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Framestore.

Elizabeth Holmes

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role Head of Compositing

As Head of Compositing, Elizabeth Holmes leads the department, using her technical, organizational and creative expertise.

With over twenty-four years of experience in the industry, Elizabeth has worked for a number of VFX studios, including Deluxe VFX and Encore. Her credit list boasts a number of great projects such as ‘The Expanse’ and the series ‘Fargo’.

The redefining moment of Elizabeth’s career is taking the helm of ReDefine’s compositing department in Montréal and working alongside a greatly collaborative team of HODs.

Oba Ameziane-Hassani

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role Head of Build

Oba Ameziane-Hassani is the Global Head of our Build Department. He is responsible for maintaining clear communication between our production team and artists within the department and for delivering the highest quality output.

Oba started his career in VFX industry in 2001. He has credits on many acclaimed cinematic releases, including ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’. He has also worked on some great animated features, including ‘The Peanuts Movie’, ‘Ice Age 5’ and ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip’. Most recently, Oba was groom supervisor on James Wan’s ‘Aquaman’ movie.

Other notable credits include: ‘Deadpool 2’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ and ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV Series)’.

Alexey Mazurenko

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role Head of Lighting

Alexey Mazurenko is Head of Lighting at ReDefine, with over fifteen years of experience in the VFX industry. His impressive CV boasts a number of prominent projects, including ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters ’, ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell’.

Very recently, Alexey also completed work on the project ‘Shazam!’. As well as working on these great projects, Alexey dedicates his time to conduct webinars on topics of industry significance.

The redefining moment in Alexey’s career was moving to Canada seven years ago.

Huck Hur

Works at ReDefine Montréal

Job Role Head of Layout

Huck Hur is the Head of Layout at ReDefine with over twenty years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining us, Huck worked for a number of VFX houses such as Atomic Fiction, Industrial Light & Magic, Luma Pictures, Deluxe Digital Pcitures Studios and more.

Huck’s impressive credit list boasts projects such as ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘Captain Marvel’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Overlord’, ‘Skyscraper’, ‘Doctor Strange’, ‘Underworld: Blood Wars’ and more.

The redefining moment in Huck’s career is the opportunity to help us define the workflow for our Layout department in Montréal.

PC Vikram

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Head of Pre-Production

PC Vikram is ReDefine’s Head of Pre-Production with over 25 years of experience in animation, commercials, games and visual development for films. As an Art Director, story-writer and animation supervisor, Vikram has previously worked for global companies such as Disney, Dreamworks, Nickelodeon, Technicolor, Zynga and Square Enix.

Outside of the day job, Vikram has also taught at leading design institutes as a visiting lecturer, and his passion and commitment to helping to create a healthy artistic community has led to him becoming a brand ambassador for leading international creative conference ‘Trojan Horse was a Unicorn’.

Shilpa Bhanushali

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Head of Production, Animation

Shilpa Bhanushali is our Head of Production for our Animation Division in Mumbai.

An industry veteran with over twenty years of experience, Shilpa joins us from Prana Studios where she was a producer working with a number of high-profile clients. Her projects ranged from The King Kong Ride for Universal in Orlando (involving both animation and VFX work) and the Marvel Experience Ride Show (which was done completely in 3D), to Disney’s ‘Planes’ and the Netflix series ‘Watership Down’, based on the famous adventure novel by English author Richard Adams.

The redefining moment in Shilpa’s career is joining us at ReDefine as there is a lot of scope to make a difference in her role and the work environment is really dynamic.

Griboshin Chandran

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Head of Production, VFX

Grib Chandran is our Head of Production across VFX and animation in India. He brings with him nineteen years of experience in the industry from prestigious VFX studios including Prime Focus, Prana Studios, Technicolor, Psyop and more. In his role with ReDefine, Grib oversees production for our Pinnacle facility, in collaboration with departmental managers and producers.

During his impressive career, Grib has had the opportunity to work on over one hundred projects but it is his time at Prime Focus that he remembers with particular fondness and he is absolutely thrilled to rejoin the family under ReDefine.

Bharat De

Works at ReDefine Mumbai

Job Role Head of 2D

Bharat De is ReDefine’s Head of 2D for India. An industry veteran with over sixteen years of experience, Bharat was previously Creative Head at Legend 3D, and before that was a DFX Supervisor at DNEG.

During his time at DNEG, Bharat completed work on shows such as ‘Avengers: End Game’, ‘Black Panther’, ‘The Kid Who Would be King’, ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Inferno’, ‘Star Trek Beyond’’ and many more.

Lucas Janin

Works at ReDefine Montreal

Job Role Head of FX

With over 20 years of industry experience, Lucas Janin is ReDefine’s Head of FX. He started his career in Spain for advertising at Discovery Channel, before becoming a visual effects artist and FX TD on projects such as like ‘300’, ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’, ‘Fantastic Four’, ‘Final Destination 3’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, and ‘Scooby-Doo 2’.

Following a move to Los Angeles, Lucas worked for eight years at Dreamworks Animation as an FX artist and developer on some of the studio’s biggest projects, including ‘Puss In Boots’, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ 1 & 2, and ‘Shrek Forever After’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’.

In 2016 Lucas settled in Montreal, leading FX teams on shows including ‘Blade Runner 2049’, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ and ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’.  Sharing his experience and passion with his team of FX artists was a redefining moment for Lucas.

He joined DNEG in 2018, as FX Supervisor on movies such as ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’, ‘Togo’ and ‘Dune’ before moving over to become part of the ReDefine family in 2020.

Lucas brings experience in animation and live-action FX, a passion for technical problem solving and a passion for sharing his knowledge to every project he undertakes at ReDefine.

Neelesh Gore

Works at ReDefine, Mumbai

Job Role Head of CG

Neelesh Gore is a Head of CG with over twenty five years of experience in the industry.

During his career, Neelesh has had the opportunity to supervise various film formats -full length animation feature film, special venue theme park projects, VFX and commercials from pre-production, production and final post production process.

Projects that Neelesh is known for include: ‘Ghostbusters: Battle for New York’, ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ and ‘Secret of the Wings’.